I was a huge Grant Morrison fan in the early nineties, and PETE MILLIGAN was perhaps my favorite comic book writer post-Moore. He wasn't locked into Gothic, he was just thinking on another level entirely. I actually prefer SHADE THE CHANGING MAN to SANDMAN. Perhaps it was the Bachalo artwork, or the focus on the main character, but I enjoyed it more than any other comic being published at the time. And I'm not in any way belittling the genius of SANDMAN.

What happened to Milligan? He just up and disappeared, seemingly.

But Morrison really knocked it out of the park a few times, and continues to do so. His ANIMAL MAN was unlike anything I'd ever read before, but his re-boot of Dan Dare in REVOLVER was killer. DOOM PATROL was so amazing and off-the-charts kooky that they should have ended it when he left. INVISIBLES was this great subversive secret. His little one shots and mini-series were great, too. In a way, he did the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen thing before Moore with SEBASTIAN O. They are incredibly different stories for sure, but SEB O was definitely steampunk, and definitely published before LoEG.
His ST. SWITHINS DAY is perhaps my favorite one-shot of all time, barely edging out KILL YOUR BOYFRIEND and I was part of a seminar he did in Chicago a couple of years ago when he was lecturing on his Chaos Magic thing. He was a totally cool guy.

What are your favorite stories, series, and series-within-series by these two great Brit authors?

milligan did a whole lot of stuff other than shade. once he finished shade there were a series of one offs and limited series. egypt, enigma, the extremist, eaters, and the like. he did another series of vertigo called minx, which i think got to issue 8. more recently he did the human target 4 issue series, followed by what was intended to be an ongoing series, before it was cancelled about 13, if memory serves.

milligan of course did work for 2000AD before he ever did for the american market. hewligan's haircut, rogan josh, bad company, etc.

most recently, milligan has been doing a couple of titles i gather for wildstorm. i think one is called the programme? and has just had its first collection published? i missed the start of it, so decided to wait.

milligan was great. but never seemed to get the profile that morrison and the likes did. i saw him at a couple of conventions back in early 90s, he was a great character.

morrison is ok, but for me he is a lot of hype. certainly done some cool stuff. arkham asylum is my benchmark for the joker.
morrison certainly wasn't the first to do steampunk, so to suggest he was and therefore trumped moore is absurd.
the filth was pretty so-so.
kill your boyfriend was pretty sweet though.

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Originally posted by Mr.Push:
morrison certainly wasn't the first to do steampunk, so to suggest he was and therefore trumped moore is absurd.

Not my intention to suggest that Morrison invented the genre, just mentioned that his Sebastian O utilized elements of steampunk before Moore did the same with LOEG.

In non-illustrated print the major forces are Blaylock and Powers. Any idea who was doing it in comics first? That would be good trivia.

Where did you get the idea that Milligan disapeared?
He's currently working for WildStorm and DC, having recently having high profile gigs writing the X-Men . . .
He did disapear from comics for a while when he was writing for

sorry, posted before finishing

He was a writer on the revamped "Crossroads" (UK daytime Soap Opera).

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